Money declares our trust in God, Who has observed our trust in money.
Aug 122015
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Aug 072015
I regret less the great works that have been irretrievably lost than the mediocre ones that have been irrevocably preserved.
Jul 242015
Religion attenuates as crime is punished.
Jul 162015
The movies compress everything, except sex and violence.
Jul 152015
Simplicity over complexity, history over fiction — the old regard these as aesthetic judgments; in fact they are mnemonic aids.
Jul 102015
Humor used to be funny.
Jul 072015
There are perfect works of art, and great works of art, but no great work of art is perfect.
Jun 292015
An actor should be vulgar and insignificant off the stage: we prefer him as someone else.
Jun 242015
Where there are no constraints there can be no art.
May 252015
Guilty pleasure: Something you are afraid your inferiors might like.